Posted on 04/20/2009 11:29:33 AM PDT by DFG
Sales of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler's autobiography and apologia for his anti-semitism, are soaring in India where business students regard the dictator as a management guru.
Booksellers told The Daily Telegraph that while it is regarded in most countries as a 'Nazi Bible', in India it is considered a management guide in the mould of Spencer Johnson's "Who Moved My Cheese".
Sales of the book over the last six months topped 10,000 in New Delhi alone, according to leading stores, who said it appeared to be becoming more popular with every year.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Hitler as a management guru?! Haven’t these guys ever watched Star Trek?! Sheesh!!
And there are people in this country who want to Free Trade with these people....and give them H1B visas instead of hiring Americans.
I am sure all the Globalists are giving the salute and a loud “Sieg Heil” to their Indian comrades....
It's apparent that these parts of the world have no understanding of western history and sensitivities and are oblivious to what is taboo for Westerners. The Swastika is a common Hindu symbol and thus probably without negative connotations in their eyes.
business students regard the dictator as a management guru.
And Hitler was such a great business leader. Isn’t his name right up there with Buffet, Welch, Branson, etc?
I thought the book, “Management Secrets of Attila the Hun” was better.
Yes, it is a real book, and my boss read it, then gave it to me.
Before the caterwauling begins, one may wish to consider that Hitler’s influence is well and brightly reflected in America today; consider our tabak policies.
Hitler would have been in full approval.
If they wanna read MeinKampf, fine, people should be free to read whatever they wish.
It is however, rather tedious in parts.
It's one thing to read a silly book, and quite another to stretch that to say that Indians are Aryan / NAZI.
There are probably more skinheads / NAZI admirers in America than in India, if you care to investigate. Just Google KKK or 'StormFront'.
To turn your H1-B paranoia into an anti-India hatefest, is amusing, to say the least. Your prattle won't go far.
Khukris unsheathed, Gurkha troops charge the enemy lines in Burma.
Indian soldiers storm a German trench, after exploding it with hand grenades.
A Lt Colonel from the 20th Indian Division accepts the formal surrender of a Japanese Commander at Saigon, Vietnam, in September 1945.
A group from the 152nd Para Battalion displaying the Japanese flag they captured at Tangkhul Hundung. ( Photograph: Bharat-Rakshak.com )
Madras Sappers and Miners work on a 'corduroy' road east of Kohima, on the Jessami track, August 1944. Timber provided a cheap way of producing a reasonably durable road surface for those hard-to-reach areas where mule or air transport was not enough.
Indian Paratroopers during World War II, with a British officer. Source: Parachute Regiment (India).
The first Indians to parachute - Captain Rangaraj (right) and Havildar Major Mathura Singh (left).
British and Indian troops exchange pleasantries as they meet on the road between Imphal and Kohima following the successful relief of the Kohima box. Circa April 1944.
A truly spectacular image. In the heat of the moment - Indian soldiers storm a German trench, after exploding it with hand grenades. Circa 1945.
An Italian soldier surrenders to a Jawan, during Operation Crusader, of an unnamed Division and Regiment, on 08 December 1941. The purpose of Operation Crusader was two-fold; to relieve Tobruk and destroy the Afrika Korp. First part of the conflict was a success, the second a failure. The battle took place between the Egyptian border and El Agheila in Libya.
An Indian soldier holds a captured Nazi flag. Circa 1945.
Medium artillery guns get unusual attention from their detachments.
Indian paratroopers being dropped at Elephant Point, Burma on 1 May 1945.
Flag captured from the 90th Panzer Light Division at Ruweisat Ridge. Circa 1942.
A Lieutenant Colonel from the 20th Indian Division, accepts the formal surrender of a Japanese Commander at Saigon, Vietnam in September 1945.
A group from the 152nd Para Battalion displaying the Japanese flag they captured while operating against the Japanese Army at Tangkhul Hundung. Circa 1945.
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The 14th Army was a polyglot force, consisting of British, Australians, Canadians, South Africans, Burmese, Chinese, Africans and, chiefly, the Indian Army, the largest volunteer army in history.
All the time, the Allies were still determined to regain Arakan. After being beaten back twice, they succeeded at the third attempt, where the breathtaking bravery of so many of Slim's men played their part.
A company commander looking for a missing soldier at night bumped into a Japanese patrol. In a frenzy of hand-to-hand combat, he shot one man, then grabbed the little body and swung it round like a flail, knocking his other two assailants off a cliff.
Then there was Umrao Singh, in command of a forward field gun detachment, who came under sustained fire from guns and mortars. Twice wounded, and while firing a Bren gun, he directed the fire of the surviving gun on the target.
He held the gun pit until dawn, and was found face down in the mud surrounded by ten lifeless Japanese soldiers and holding a hand-spike he had used in hand-to-hand combat. Singh survived and was awarded the Victoria Cross.
Years later, living in penury on his Indian smallholding, he was told he could sell his VC for a good price. He replied indignantly that he would never sully the honour of his fallen comrades.
Yet still the Japanese came. The battles of Imphal and Kohima, fought in the spring of 1944 on the far northeastern border of India and Burma against three Japanese divisions, were the decisive battles of the Burma campaign.
Before Imphal, the Japanese general, Mutaguchi, was so confident of Japanese invincibility that he had arranged for 'comfort women' (mostly Korean women forced into prostitution) to be flown in after the victory.
The Japanese hurled themselves with desperate courage on the British positions, but they held firm. Days turned into months.
A Japanese Lieutenant, Taiso Nishikawa, wrote from the front line in his diary: 'If we do manage to capture a position, the enemy bombards it with mortars and bombs it from the air to a heart-shaking degree; so that those who have dug deep trenches are buried in them, and those who have dug shallow have their hands and feet blown away.'
Eventually, when he realised that what remained of his troops were no longer obeying his orders, Mutaguchi broke off the offensive. With 55,000 casualties, Imphal and Kohima represented the largest defeat in Japanese history.
In Europe, the D-Day landings had just been completed. In Burma, the road south to the strategically important city of Mandalay lay open. The tide had turned.
Who knew Gandhi was a closet fascist? Ties in with his beliefs that the Jews should accept the fate of their masters. Such a revered figure by peaceniks should be revealed to show his dark side.
Most Indians consider themselves to be Aryans. In the scientific/linguistic sense of the term, they are, as they speak Aryan or Indo-European languages.
Not a few Indians hold racialist beliefs quite similar to those of the Nazis, with the identity of the super-race appropriately modified. The caste system obviously lends itself well to such an ideology.
That said, thanks for posting the Indian Army pictures. Their service against the Axis should be honored.
Dont think the Israelis, being smart, are going to get their knickers in a wad over this....
In the meantime, in real news......
India’s eye in the sky takes aim
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KD21Df01.html
...The RISAT’s launch has given Indo-Israeli relations new momentum in the strategic areas of space and defense. India helped Israel launch its own spy satellite TecSAR, another SAR-enabled satellite, last January. In a controversial break from its longstanding military space policy of strategic self-reliance, Israel launched TecSAR aboard India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle rather than its indigenous Shavit rocket.
Two more Indo-Israeli satellites will be launched over the next two years, according to defense ministry sources. Aside from cooperation in space exploration, India has bought over US$5 billion worth of Israeli military equipment since 2002. Israel has reportedly helped train Indian military units and given Indian commandos instruction in counter-terrorist tactics and urban warfare.
If somebody told me this ten years ago, I would have laughed in their faces. These people are OUT of their MINDS!!!!!!
Germany did manage to put up quite a fight, in WW2.
That certainly would have required some sound management. Not sure about what the Mein Kampf contains regarding those aspects, but I’ve read many here state that NASA’s greatest successes were when the Germans (NAZI- era scientists) were running the place.
I’ll spoil the ending for them....Adolf loses.
I read Mein Kampf some time ago. As I recall it, it is mainly a frightening, paranoid description of Hitler's race theories and his plans for a future state. My guess is the Indians may actually be looking at his ideas of Aryan Supremacy and conflating that fantasy with the reality of their own background as “true” Indo-Aryans which, of course, has nothing in common with the Hitlerian fantasy of a Germanic Super-race.
If Hitler was as smart as he could have been he would gotten rid of the germ of Anti-Semitism. THAT would have given him Einstein and others. And he would have pushed ahead his plans to take over the world until his scientists had created more sophisticated military weaponry.
Fortunately for us, he didn't.
True. The exodus of the Jewish scientists cost them the Bomb. Had they waited a coulpe of years before going after Russia, they’d have been invincible, and you and I, typing this in German.
Actually, all the Nazis had to do was to treat the occupied parts of the Soviet Union, in the same manner that they occupied France or Holland, there would have been many Russians and Ukrainians who would have welcomed them as liberators from Stalin.
and other Captains of the industry who held Hitler in such a high regard that they provided funding (J.P. Morgan), weapons (Colt), oil, artificial rubber and chemicals (Standard Oil, DuPont), trucks and tanks (GM), adding machines (IBM) and many other things needed for his war machine. Perhaps Indian students want to learn how to attract American capital.
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